Robby SoaveThe Covington / Nathan Phillips incident is shaping up to be as misguided a rush to judgment as the Rolling Stone story. Full video footage largely exonerates the students, explicitly contradicts Phillips.
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Core Tenets of Anti-Racist Scholarship-Activism. Racism exists today in both traditional and modern forms Racism is an institutionalized, multilayered, multilevel system that distributes unequal po…

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James LindsayThe Social Justice initiatives taking over our universities is profoundly religious in nature. Evergreen State College was an early victim. My latest with @HPluckrose develops some of the ideas presented in @MikeNayna's fresh documentary about it.
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In public discourse, an opponent’s identity and experience can matter more than their arguments. For instance, if you are a philosopher who supports the use of torture in a narrow set of circumstances on utilitarian grounds, you would not want to...

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Jonathan Kaygreat piece on @Quillette about the rush to judgment on the Covington Catholic High School story. I was one of many who assumed I knew the whole story when I saw the original video, but this puts things in context
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Claire Lehmann"This disgraceful affair is further evidence of America’s spiralling polarization and of group hatreds being used to justify sanctimonious mobbing and violence. Activists and Twitter blowhards have run roughshod over the facts"
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Bari WeissRep. Ilhan Omar, who was just seated on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says she doesn't understand why Jewish Americans would be offended by the notion that "Israel has hypnotized the world" to carry out "evil." Here's why
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A convergence of racial and religious groups set the stage for the viral moment. “I stepped in between to pray,” Nathan Phillips said on Sunday.

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The New York TimesA fuller picture emerged on Sunday of the videotaped encounter between a Native American man and a group of high school boys wearing “Make America Great Again” gear outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington
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There was far more than met the eye to the Covenant Catholic story, but that didn’t stop the popular press from vilifying its students.

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Andy NgoMainstream media said the #CovingtonCatholicHigh schoolboys verbally abused black men & shouted “build the wall.”A 2 hour video of the incident doesn’t show that but does show the black men telling them: “Christ is coming back to kick your cracker asses.”
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Next month, Ayatollah Khamenei’s theocracy will stage celebrations commemorating 40 years of revolutionary power. It will do so amidst widespread acts of civil disobedience, street protests, labor strikes, and ubiquitous resentment produced by a...

In 1957, Richard D. Heffner sat down with Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Judge J. Waties Waring to discuss the subject of "The New Negro."

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Jonathan HaidtHere's a fascinating interview with Martin Luther King, Jr., one of his earliest national television interviews, in 1957, on @OpenMindTV. He discusses his strategy, and his predictions for the future: a shock period, then things get better.
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